I went looking for a plug-in that would embed a tweet and boy, did I find one. It does that and a whole lot more. And even better, you don't even have to push a button. Just paste the URL (not the <embed> code) of whatever you're embedding and there's your video. Or your tweet. Or your Soundcloud playlist. Or your Amazon product listing. Or your whatever else this thing will embed. There's a lot - and I've only experimented with a few of them.

Another example of what can be done with this thing. This was a live stream (now a rerun) of a football game some of us might have watched. This one comes from Facebook but it also does NBC Sports, which the Facebook embed came from, so I wouldn't be surprised if we could do real, live, live streams directly on the board.

There seems to be a small problem with this plug-in but I'm not sure if it's visible to anyone or not. Since I installed it, my log reports have been showing literally thousands of "file not found" errors per day for the file that controls how the pages look. The error is coming up for all styles and platforms and it's coming up often enough that we should all be seeing it. I haven't. Has anyone?

If the file were truly not loading, the pages would look like this:

Is anyone getting that?

If it's a problem for anyone, I guess I should look into figuring out how to avoid it. If it isn't anything visible, I don't think I'll worry about it for the time being.

I only tried to use it once, and failed. I think it's just smarter than I am, so I was probably not doing it right. No kids at home to show me how, and I didn't really have a problem with the way it works without it. Can't remember what happened when I tried it...just that it didn't work.

It should work just by pasting the page URL. For sites it supports, which is a much longer list than the button. But I see it doesn't do C-Span. A whole lot of others, though. I think the next software update will have most of it built in. If I ever get to do it.

I think I found the problem. There seems to be a conflict with the American English language pack. But rather than deleting it and switching evourybody to British English, I think I'll just say "no biggie" unless somebody complains.

Sometimes you have to reload the page for YouTubes to show up. I assume it's a browser caching issue. But I'm very happy with the plug-in. I'm planning on getting some use out of it for live feeds next season.